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AT WIT'S END WITH WINDOWS.

Here are some very interesting history & facts related to Leap Year.
Remember some to impress your friends & date tomorrow.

1 The original Roman 355 day calendar had an extra 22-day month every few years to maintain the correct seasonal changes. By the time Julius Caesar took reign, the seasons no longer occurred during the same months they once had.

2 This was remedied in 45 B.C. by removing the extra month and adding the extra day to a few months instead.

3 Julius Caesar proclaimed the last day of February as Leap Year Day, skipping it three out of four years. Back then, February 30th was the last day of the last month of the year, which is why he picked it.

4 Julius also threw in a month in honour of himself (Julius - July).

5 Around 10 BC, it was found that the priests in charge of computing the calendar had been adding leap years every three years instead of the four decreed by Caesar (Vardi 1991, p. 239). As a result of this error, no more leap years were added until 8 A.D. Leap years were therefore 45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC, 27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, 12 BC, 9 BC, 8 AD, 12 AD, and every fourth year thereafter (Tøndering), until the Gregorian calendar was introduced.

6 In 4 A.D. Emperor Caesar Augustus corrected a counting error in Leap Years. He also had the month of August named after him, and took the last day of February so that August can have 31 days, just like Julius' month. Now February has 29 days in Leap Years.

7 The calendar was finally perfected by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 who predicted Easter and Christmas would eventually fall on top of each other without his intervention.

8 Pope Gregory determined that Leap Day should fall on any year divisible by 4 but not 100 (except when the year is divisible by 400).

9 Century years were made leap years if they were divisible by 400. So, 2000 was a Leap Year, but 1900 was not.

10 At the same time, Pope Gregory moved the end of the year to December 31st.

11 He also moved the end of the year back two months so that Easter would occur in the spring.

12 Today our year is 365.2425 days, off from our solar year by .00031, or one day's error over 4,000 years.

13 If you're a "Leaper," you will have beaten the 1,506 odds against being born on Leap Day.

14 There are currently around 4.1 million ‘Leapers’ in the world today.

15 Yes, Superman is a Leap Day Baby! He is a comic book character, so he can have whatever birthday his creator decides to give him. An article in TIME magazine, March 14 1988, proclaimed Superman to be born on February 29. However, If you figure it out, there is no way anyone can be 50 'years' old on February 29, of any Leap Year. They would have to be 48 or 52. And, if someone did turn 50 'Leap Years' old on February 29, 1988, they would have been born in 1784!

If we judge what we value by our circumstance
we will de-value what's important to give value
what is momentary

Thought of the day:
If the prata men at Jalan Kayu would thought of making prata paper thin,
there's no stopping Steve Jobs either.